learningequality/ka-lite — pull request #2818 by jamalex (2014-12-19 22:00:02+00:00)
Title: Fix UUID race conditions

Previously, the default `get_uuid` method calculated the uuid as a function of the device ID and the counter position, but as the function for incrementing/retrieving the counter wasn't properly atomic, this led in some cases to duplicate model ids (and hence likely a couple instances of data loss :crying_cat_face:).

This PR does two things:
- Makes the default uuid generation `get_uuid` method be random (uuid4), rather than being based on the counter.
- Makes the counter incrementing more atomic, to avoid race conditions (seems quite robust, from testing, especially compared to the old one).